Improvement in apparatus for raising water



J. O. KILE. Apparatus for Raising Water.

No. 202,950. Patented April 30,1878. TE 4..

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JARVIS O. KILE, OF WOODBOURNE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO ISAAC JELLIFF, OF LIBERTY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 202,950, dated April30, 1878 application filed March 18, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES C. KILE, of Woodbourne, in the county ofSullivan and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Apparatus for Raising Water from Wells, Springs, andStreams; and I do hereby declare the followmg to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others andstreams; and it consists in the peculiar construction of the operatingdevice whereby it is made to automatically adjust itself so that theoperator has nothing to do but to turn the crank, and the piston will beconstantly operafted, as will be more fully described hereina ter.

The accompanying drawings represent my invention.

a represents a suitable cylinder, provided with a valve in its lowerend, and in which the piston b, having a heavy weight, 0, upon its top,works up and down. This cylinder is to be placed in a spring, stream, ora deep well, and the weight upon the top of the piston will beproportioned to the distance to which the water is to be forced. For thepurpose of making the weight adjustable, I prefer to form it of anysuitably-shaped vessel or holding device into which sand, shot, or anyheavy substance can be placed. Although here shown as a vessel, a wirecage into which rocks or other heavy material can be placed will answersubstantially the same purpose. Passing up through this weighted vesselis a vertical rod, 01, the upper end of which passes through a guide, soas to keep it always straight, and fastened to it, at any distance belowits upper end that may be found desirable, is a chain,- cord, rope, orother suitable flexible connecting device, e, which passes up oversuitable pulleys g to the operating mechanism by which the piston ismade to move up and down in the cylinder.

Passing from the lower end of the cylinder is a conducting-pipe, h, madeof lead, iron, or galvanized iron, as may be preferred, and whichextends upward to any desired point, as shown.

The operating mechanism, which is to be placed near or inside of thehouse, or at any other point that may be preferred, consists of asuitable frame-work, l, passing horizontally through which are the twoguide-rods n, upon which the latch-box m moves back and forth, and towhich latch-box is fastened the wire, rope, or chain extending up fromthe weighted piston, as already described. Pivoted in this latch-box isa lever, 0, the lower end of which is formed into a plate having its topedge beveled away in one direction, so as to form a sharp edge, whichedge catches in the screw or Worm-gear 1'. Bearing upward against theunder side of this lever, so as to catch its sharp edge in contact withthe screw or worm at the point where the lever 0 begins to move forward,is the spring 8. This spring is so bent as to force the lever upwardonly until after it has moved forward far enough to catch over the topof the support t, which continues to press the sharp edge of the leverinto the screw or worm.

After the worm has drawn the lever and the box m forward until the leverno longer has its outer end held up or supported by the support t, thelever sinks downward, so that the latch or sharp portion escapes fromthe screw or worm, when the weight of the piston jerks it instantly backacross the frame to the starting-point. As the box and lever movebackward to the starting-point, the outer end of the lever again movesover the top of the spring .9, when the latch portion of the lever isagain thrown in contact with the screw or worm. Thus it will be seenthat the operator has only to continue turning the crank, when thelatchbox will raise the weighted piston upward the length of the screwor worm, and as soon as the latch has reached the end of the worm it isthrown out of gear with it, when the piston at once falls, and all ofthe water in the cylinder is forced upward through the deliverypipe. Bycontinuing the turning of the crank volume after volume of the waterwill be raised until the desired quantity has been received.

lever, a spring for forcing the outer end of the lever upward, andasupport, t, substantially as described.

2. Frame 1, guide-rods n, latch-box m, wormgear 7', spring 8, support t,and lever 0, with the weighted piston, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand andseal this 2d day of March, 1878.

JARVIS o. KILE. [L. 8.]

Witnesses:

BENJAMIN VERNooY, R. R. JELLIFF.

